TX: Texas Region Sasha’s Children’s Book Run Rally

Join the SCCA Texas Region as we close our 2022 Rally season, supporting a good cause while honoring Sasha Lanz! The Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) cordially invites all fellow car enthusiasts to Sasha’s Children’s Book Run Rally, a Trek rally benefiting the Scottish Rite for Children, one of the nation’s leading pediatric orthopedic centers. All are welcome, and no prior rally experience is necessary.

A bit of history: Sasha Lanz was instrumental in building a successful RoadRally program in the SCCA Texas Region and leading it for many years. One of his favorite events was the Children’s Book Run. Entrants were asked to donate two children’s books, gathered at check-in on Rally Day. Over the six years, we have held the rally, hundreds of books were donated to Sottish Rite!  We would like to keep this tradition alive and conduct a Children’s Book Run in his name every year.   

This year we plan to conduct the event again as a Trek, a non-competitive driving event on scenic country roads. No questions, puzzles, tricks or traps, or timed controls, just a fun drive following a pre-determined route in Collin, Grayson, and Denton counties using a “convoy style” format – and a bit of trivia: we’ll pass through 7 towns named after women. We’ll provide basic route instructions as a backup only. Weather permitting, we’ll stop at one or two places of interest for a group picture.

Each person in the car is asked to contribute two NEW books for the patients at Scottish Rite. They need books for all ages – 5 through 16 – including Look-and-Find books, board books, chapter books, Spanish-language books, etc. We will collect the books at registration/check-in.

We encourage you to pre-register via this link at Motorsportreg, where you will find important registration and event details. This helps us plan and have ample copies of the route instructions, too!

Registration/check-in on-site will be open from 10:15 am to 10:45 am, with a Rally Day Safety Briefing at 10:50 am. Teams leave the start after 11:00 am for the approximately three-hour drive covering 110 miles of countryside.